STREET BETTING.
PISK PRESS ASSOCIATION. Auckland, August 28. \1 ii-rt I,ML-J.U wau <,„u|,; o a iu the Supremo Court this morning in hearing the appeal of a man named Leonard Adam?, against the decision of Mr Dyer, S.M., lining him £lO on a charge of obstructing the footpath in Vulcan Lane. The appeal was based pa the contention that the facts did not justify a conviction. ■ In the course of argumont, His Honor said the Legislature would, ho believed, spo.i alter the state of the law in regard to street betting. The Legislature ought to say that if any person who is a bookmaker, or a reputed bookmaker, wis found lounging about the streets with other people, the ouus must be thrown on him to show he is there for a proper purpose, failing which, il would bo left tj bu presume! ho was there for improper purposes. If a man day aficr day haunted streets knoivn to bo the lmunt of reputod bookmakers, and could show no apparent good purpose, His Honor would think it would be inferred he was a boakuirker. Deei i in was deferred.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81834, 29 August 1906, Page 2
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188STREET BETTING. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81834, 29 August 1906, Page 2
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